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Anne Applebaum: Red Famine (Hardcover, 2017, Signal) 4 stars

Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag …

Deep research; untrustworthy analysis

3 stars

Deep research on a vital topic, unfortunately analyzed by someone who said that of course farmers hoarded grain (while their neighbors starved to death).

Would be a good starting point for further investigation, but I didn't trust the analysis at all.

Margaret Killjoy: We Won't Be Here Tomorrow (2022, AK Press Distribution) 5 stars

Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major …

Review of "We Won't Be Here Tomorrow" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I love the same thing about these stories as I love about Margaret Killjoy's podcasts: hope in the face of plenty of reasons to despair. As an added bonus, there's wonderful love stories throughout this book, some of them new ways for this old lady to think about love.